As the heroine of “Nim’s Island,” Abigail Breslin embodies a great kid fantasy — she’s smart, courageous, independent and she lives on a tropical island with her doting father (Gerard Butler) and a ...

To conduct the study, baby Nim is taken from his mother and given to Stephanie LaFarge, a former psychology student of Dr. Terrace’s who is already raising several children of her own on the Upper ...

Film director James Marsh described his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire as a "heist" film. His new documentary, Project Nim, is a heist film too. It's about a chimpanzee that was taken away from ...

James Marsh first became a household name in the States after winning the 2009 Oscar for Best Documentary for his film Man on Wire, a “heist” picture about the French tightrope walker, Philippe Petit, ...

Project Nim, a documentary film directed by James Marsh, is the story of scientist Herb Terrace and his experiment—initiated in December, 1973—to teach sign language to a chimpanzee named Nim. It is ...

James Marsh again proves himself a storyteller of impeccable craftsmanship and delicacy in this unsettling but enthralling animal science study. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic The British ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...

This crowded tropical isle is jammed with childhood fantasies, exotic creatures, outlandish plots and improbable characters both real and imagined. The idyllic island makes Disneyland's Jungle Cruise ...

"Project Nim," a documentary by Oscar-winning director James Marsh, is a heartwarming and heartbreaking story about a home-bred, pot-smoking, cookie-chomping chimpanzee called Nim Chimpsky. Nim was ...